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...sullied socks. There's a profit being made off our grimy garments, and every time a student swipes a Crimson Cash card or drops a quarter in a dryer his loss becomes someone else's gain. From Eliot House to Adams House, from Hollis to Holworthy, our precious dollars are being washed away with the Tide. Ironically, our money is being laundered in a room full of Maytags...
...precious metals and other reusable parts, it's still tough to make any money recycling PCs. Minus the cost of processing, the average used system is worth a measly $6 in raw materials, according to electronics recycler Envirocycle in Hallstead, Pa. The monitor is worth just $2.50. When IBM announced its consumer-PC recycling program last fall, it decided to have the carcasses shipped not to its 700,000-sq.-ft. recycling center in Endicott (where it mines corporate PCs for parts) but to an independent recycler 30 miles away. The reason: "Typically all that low-end stuff...
...Memorable "characters"--like S1's cuddly Colleen, trash-talkin' Susan and salty homophobe Rudy--are crucial to reality shows, and they are as painstakingly cast as those in any Hollywood blockbuster. And sequels are tough. The first season of MTV's The Real World was an unusual if sometimes precious social experiment with an eclectic group of youth. The second was packed with annoying prima donnas dying to break into show biz. Who wants to watch a cast of 16 scheming Richards--or worse, 16 Gregs, whipping out coconut phones (eucalyptus phones?) in hopes of becoming breakout stars...
...creativity has gone the way of your clean underwear and you find yourself succumbing too often to the usual suspects--namely Brain Break and the Grille--fear not. A new diversionary tactic has hit the scene, and it's all but guaranteed to waste hours and hours of precious time...
...considered slim. Of all the compounds his team brings forward, says Molinoff, only 10% to 15% manage to pass the rigorous series of tests that lead to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And even when they do, Harvard University neurologist Dr. Kenneth Kosik emphasizes, precious few new drugs prove to be anything close to magic bullets. Indeed, Kosik, along with many others, thinks it is quite likely that controlling Alzheimer's disease will require more than one type of drug. In addition to compounds that inhibit plaques, for example, patients may need drugs that prevent the formation...